The presentation was very strong and Steve did a great job engaging the class to participate. We are in a time and age where social media impacts everyone’s lives differently and is a platform where you can be who you want to be whether you are like that in reality or not. The questions asked were very engaging and nostalgic because it made me think back to the times when I first started using social media. I had a friend that lived in the same apartment build as me but she was in the other building so our windows were facing each other so we would communicate by yelling out the window if we wanted to go outside together or if we were ready to walk to school together and once we had phones we would use Facebook to communicate. That transition was very dramatic but helpful. 

In my opinion, fake news came about when the media learned that people love news and it’s got to the point that fake news is created to entertain people and keep people talking. This is scary because news media and blog pages would rather feed people information than to fact check them the publish the information. They would bullish the fake news then the person related to the news or the news is about specks out about the news on whether it is true or not and that response becomes a whole new story. The news source I think about when it comes to fake news is the Instagram page “theshaderoom”. The shade room gained its popularity by posting information about celebrity lives or entertaining videos. The problem is that now they are so popular that they don’t care whether they are posting fake news or real news as long as they have evidence to back up their claim. The only information I fact check are the ones that interesting to me but what really bothers me is the fact that this page is making money off-putting peoples private information into the public or find joy in solving a mystery in someone life that would be just a good story that people would find entertaining.  

Fake news published in the media about politics or on a judgment of character is a form of defamation and can have serious consequences. In the article “ Goodbye to the Age of Newspapers (Hello to a New Era of Corruption)”, newspapers were the way people got news and information but now that we have social media the newspaper is out of date. Newspapers were credible because they had to fact check every information they put out and make sure that it was worth publishing and relevant. But now with social media and having the president uses Twitter to put out information it makes it harder to make sure that information is real or not. 

Weekly news: My weekly news is about what is happening in Nigeria as we speak. They are fighting against police brutality and just yesterday their police were shooting at the protester and not letting the ambulance pass so they could help the wounded. Many lifeless bodies were laying on the ground. 

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/21/africa/nigeria-sars-protests-police-explainer-intl/index.html